Victor Gischler

Victor Gischler is an American author of comedic crime fiction.

Career Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.

He has also written American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool (including Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth and Deadpool Corps ) for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1.

Gun Monkeys was optioned for a film adaptation with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct, though no film release came from this project. The book was eventually adapted into the film Fast Charlie, directed by Philip Noyce from a screenplay by Richard Wenk.